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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xTBh3J8huQ <-- holy effin' crap! :o Just can't stop listening to this clip. The first time through, she starts playing and I'm like "hey, this sounds like it is going to be pretty good"... then she starts singing, and I'm like "oh, wow!"... and f...

Pretty cool cover of one of my favorite songs ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RV0kgdqJU Made me LOL because it is so f*cking over the top, but so good at the same time. I think I am in love with the female singer/guitarist. I enjoyed that way to much, and agree... I think she was looking at...

I had to have one of these for my Calculus I class back in Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six. I think we've stumbled upon a dating method for future archaeologists. Estimate the age of the geek by the calculator they used in college. :P The generation before mine used slide rules. I was pretty much r...

Back in the day, the fan in the PSU of my dual Athlon (MPX) rig failed. I started to smell burning electronics, then noticed that the outside of the PC case (over the PSU, this was an old-style case with top PSU mount) was quite hot. Immediately shut the system down and swapped in a spare PSU...

Would be a much smaller issue if I hadn't bought a number of the crappy 1st-gen Cree bulbs. They account for nearly all of the failures. Those are fun. Break open the silicone-coated glass, and then the LED assembly is folded around the heatsink core. It slides right out as the contacts are merely ...

Until I got towards the end of your post I was going to say "PSU", but I guess that has been (mostly) ruled out. Could've been a dead CMOS battery was the original trigger (if you still have the old battery and have a multimeter, check its voltage). Also sounds like whatever you were doing...

In a sort-of-related vein, git is the RPN of source code management systems. It seemed pretty alien to me at first, but it is very powerful. Designed for managing large distributed development projects, by the person who manages one of the larger (and most widely used) Open Source projects. :wink: I...

The Xfinity UI is a mess too. My wife actually uses the voice control feature to find stuff; that seems to work reasonably well.

RPN calculators are significantly more efficient than algebraic calculators, since they require fewer keystrokes and you don't have to worry about mismatched parentheses. Yup... they seem pretty alien until your brain has internalized that algebraic-to-RPN compiler though! I can definitely see how ...

Yes, once you learn to think in RPN it is actually faster, since it requires fewer keystrokes.

My calculator in college was a Ti-58C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-59_/_TI-58

Would be a much smaller issue if I hadn't bought a number of the crappy 1st-gen Cree bulbs. They account for nearly all of the failures.

3) mATX mobo/case places the GPU closer to the bottom panel fan for more direct airflow path. 4) Shorter front-back case dimension is better because it places the front panel fans closer to the CPU/GPU Overall airflow is probably more important than proximity of the CPU/GPU to the intakes. At the e...

Yeah, I've been scratching my head over how to dispose of dead LED bulbs too. You can try Batteries+Bulbs, I know they take CFL bulbs for a fee. There's a list of bulb types they take on their web site: https://www.batteriesplus.com/t/recycling/Light-Bulb LED is conspicuously absent. Paying someone...

Recently, I had my first LED bulb failure. A non-dimmable Walmart $2.44 60watt equivalent that ran continuously at 8.5watts for two years and three months upside down in a surface mount ceiling fixture on a three year warranty. I took it to the service desk in an original box with the receipt and t...

As an aside, my current work/play space is a basement room. My current system is in my storage area, literally on the other side of cinder block wall, through which many years ago I drilled a large-diameter hole, and ran long DVI-D and HDMI cables through. That has been perfect silence (and also pe...

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@Chrispy_ - Are you sure the problematic batteries weren't NiCd? NiMH are less affected by the "memory effect" than NiCd. And lithium-based battery tech doesn't age particularly well either.

TFW... You're building a custom Linux kernel with out-of-tree drivers, and the kernel build fails because the Makefile for one of the out-of-tree drivers is incompatible with the "-j" option (multi-threaded make).

Probably a contract manufacturer that mostly produces boards for other vendors/OEMs.

@blahsaysblah - Dynamic partitions and UEFI are not tied to each other AFAIK. You can have either one without the other. At least, this was the case in earlier versions of Windows. The best way to ensure that there's no partition cruft left to mess up your new install is to back up all of the data p...

I've thought about moving to Alaska later in my life, when I'm closer to retirement age. I'm not exactly a people person so the farther away I am from the big mob of screaming apes and their self-immolating PoliSci overlords the happier I'll be. And given the nature of what I do for a living, it's ...

I've not seen a single ad in the operating system . In apps? Yes. From the OS? No. You think OS X, iOS, Linux, or Android are any better from that perspective? Not even close. None of my Linux apps show me ads. :wink: If you didn't purchase the product, you are the product. Most desktop Linux distr...

The Kaypro basically killed Osborne. Some of it was self-inflicted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect Sure, they made a lot of bad decisions. But if Kaypro hadn't grabbed most of the market niche they occupied, they would've probably survived for at least another product generation (if n...

The Kaypro basically killed Osborne.

Well, with the media encoding and VMs, your proposed upgrade sounds like a reasonable way to get some extra resources for that without having to shell out for a new platform and DDR4. 8GB is really tight to be running VMs, and getting enough DDR4 for a new build is gonna cost a LOT.

If the RAM hasn't been abused, that's a very good price these days (as I'm sure you're aware). Are you sure your motherboard is compatible with the Xeon? Just because it is the same socket type does not mean it has BIOS support. I also see that the base clock on the Xeon is much lower (though turbo ...

We're OK in Chicago, other than being unseasonably cool and the warnings about 18 foot waves and flooding along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

I don't think there's any overlap between the Elitebook and Envy lines, but it's always good to check. The recall did affect some Probook products but those are still a lot closer to consumer-class derp than the actually fairly decent corporate stuff. With HP/Dell/Lenovo notebooks, I say either go ...

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